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Steve Kordek, the pinball machine pioneer whose creations had fuelled the coin-op industry for decades, has died aged 100. Chicago-born Kordek is widely believed to have designed the iconic two-flipper pinball machine. He passed away on February 19th. He had designed more than one hundred different pinball board layouts for …

Hudson Soft, one of the big-hitters in the early days of video gaming, will pass away on March 1st. It will be absorbed into owning company Konami, which acquired the firm in April 2011, and will effectively disappear from the industry forever. Hudson was behind classic IP such as Bomberman, …

One of the most iconic figures of the modern day technological age, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has passed away at the age of 56. Jobs, who in 2009 had a six-month absence from the firm as he continued his fight with cancer, officially stepped down as CEO of Apple in …

It won’t be a shock to hear that Microsoft has admitted that it has ceased production of Zune hardware. The Zune brand will live on, however, as the face of much of Microsoft’s content sales service. It can still be found, for instance, on the Xbox dashboard as the branding …

An explosion at the Foxconn factory in Chengdu China which resulted in three deaths and 15 injured is likely to put Apple’s iPad 2 supply further in constraint. The explosion and fire at the plant, which a DigiTimes report said accounts for around 25-30 per cent of Apple’s iPad 2 …

Nokia announced the firm is dump the Ovi brand of services, instead simply using ‘Nokia’ to "centralise identity under one brand," they said. "We will reinforce the powerful master brand of Nokia and unify our brand architecture while continuing to deliver compelling opportunities and experiences for partners and consumers alike," …

It’s been a difficult life for Sony’s UMD-free, digital only PSPgo. But reports are now suggesting that time has finally been called on the model. Andriasang has translated a report that, in its words, "appears to be run by a Sony Shop employee or at the very least a super …

Sony’s upcoming PSP successor the Next Generation Portable will be unable to compete with Apple’s iPhone and its digital distribution portal the App Store, a leading casual games exec has warned. His thoughts echo those muttered by analyst Michael Pachter last year. I think they are hurt; I think they’re …

Profoundly blurry pictures and hearsay – as far as the PSP2 goes that’s as concrete as it gets for now, but the evidence is seemingly more than enough for outspoken US analyst Michael Pachter to write off the machine before it’s even revealed. I think the PSP was dead on …

The man behind Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect technology has warned of the dangers of simply tacking on motion control into games primarily built for the joypad – and at the same time claimed the death of the first person shooter genre on PC. Halo did an awesome job of building …